Create a Moodle assignment activity

Submission settings govern what happens when students are submitting their work. Select options for the student submission process. You can click the help icon beside each field for more information.

By default:

• YES: Students are required to click the submit button.
• YES: Students are required to accept the submission statement. The Submission statement is a standard statement acknowledging the student’s understanding of Monash academic integrity policies. It should only be changed to No in exceptional circumstances.
• Attempts reopened - this is set to manual by default. This means that if it is determined that a student should have a second attempt at an assignment, the lecturer needs to reopen it personally.
• Maximum attempts - this is set to Unlimited by default. This is the number of times a student may submit before the due date.

1. To create a Group assignment, select Yes for Students submit in groups. More settings will now become available.

   

2. In Require group to make submission select Yes if only students who are allocated to a group can submit. This will prevent unallocated students from submitting individually.

   Note: It is important to advise students who are not allocated to a group to contact you before the assignment is due. Check if any students are unallocated in the Groups and groupings overview.

3. In the drop down menu for Require all group members submit select:
   1. Yes: All members of the group must individually click submit and complete the Plagiarism declaration before the group submission will be considered as submitted.
   2. No: The group submission will be considered as submitted as soon as ANY member of the student group clicks the submit button and completes the Plagiarism declaration.
4. In the drop down menu for Grouping for student groups, select the name of the grouping that contains the student groups for this assignment.

Note: If you get the error message "Student is not a member of any group or a member of multiple groups", this occurs when a student has been allocated to two groups that have been added to the same grouping. View the Groups and groupings overview page for potential conflicts.

For more information on set up groupings see Groups and groupings.

If you wish to allow students to self select their groups, see Group self-selection.

Notifications can be sent by Moodle when certain conditions are met. You can click the help icon beside each field for more information. The settings to control these are:

• Graders can be sent a notification when Moodle receives student submissions, as well as whether submissions are late.
• Notify students - Students can be sent notifications triggered by events in the grading workflow. It is set to No by default.
• Marker details - this controls whether the assigned grader’s name is displayed to students.

By default:

• Graders will not be sent a notification for student assignment submissions, early, on time or late.
• The default setting for Notify students, related to notifying students of grading and grading workflow is set to No. This setting can be changed on the Grade form if required.
• The assigned Grader’s name is displayed to students.

Turnitin is a tool that enables student submissions to be checked for matching or highly similar text against an online database including academic papers, previous Turnitin submissions, and the World Wide Web. Turnitin should NOT be regarded as a “plagiarism detector”, but should assist you in making your own judgement in regards to Monash University's standards of academic integrity.

Turnitin can be integrated with an assessed Moodle assignment or as a standalone non-assessed activity.

For more information, see Turnitin.

Grade type

You can select either Point or Scale as the mode for grading. You can also select None for non-assessed draft items.

• Point -  A numerical grade. The maximum grade should be 100 as grades above 100 can cause issues with Moodle Gradebook. Point is the default grade type.
• Scale - Alternative marking method to numerical grades. Avoid using scales for work contributing to the final mark, unless you have a thorough understanding of the implications. If you wish to show students a letter grade, use the Grade display settings instead. For more information, see Scales and Letter grade display.
• None - Assignment's weighting is set to 0, appropriate for non-assessed draft assignments

Grading Method

Provides a choice between simple direct grading and Rubrics/Marking guides.

• Simple direct grading lets you grade assignments by point value using the quick grading function in the Grader report. The grader provides only a final grade and feedback to students. Simple direct grading is suitable for smaller assignments and is the most commonly used grading method.
• Rubrics or Marking guides are recommended for more complex assignments or assignments with multiple graders as they provide clarity on the grading scheme for both students and markers. They may be shared with students beforehand so they understand the expectations and what they will be graded on.
  • Marking guide: Create a set of comment based criteria with an assigned maximum mark, eg. Student has provided 3 examples (3 marks). To set up a Marking guide, see Grade using Moodle Marking guides.
  • Rubric: Create a rubric to use for criteria-based assessment. To set up a grading rubric, see Grade using Moodle Rubrics.
  • Ranged rubric: Create a ranged rubric to use for criteria-based assessment. Ranged rubrics allows you to assign a range of marks to each criterion level. To set up a ranged rubric, see Grade using ranged rubrics.

Grade category

If you have set up Categories in your Gradebook, choose which category your assignment will be created under from the drop down list.

Grade to pass

Grades equal to or over this value will appear in green in Gradebook, grades below this value will be red.

Anonymous submissions

This enables submitted student assignments to be displayed anonymously to markers as a participant number rather than by their name. This is a useful way to reduce unconscious bias in grading. For more information, see Anonymous submissions.

Note: If a student has included their name in their assignment submission, it will still be visible.

Hide grader identity from students

Set whether students can see who is marking their work in the workflow system

Marking workflow and marking allocation

Assign marking of individual or groups of student assignments to markers and use marking workflow to monitor the progress of the marking process. If Grade penalties is set to yes, the late penalty is not applied until the grades are released to the students.

For more information, see Marker allocation and marking workflow.

Note: When Use marking workflow is set to Yes, Use marking allocation becomes available.

Grade penalties

By default, this is set to Yes to automatically apply late penalties to students’ grades in line with the Monash Marking and Feedback Procedure, ie. 5% of available marks per day or part thereof. The penalty is displayed to students and teachers in the grader report and the assignment grader interface. The default setting (Yes) can only be changed by users with the Chief Examiner, Unit Coordinator, or Faculty Administrator role.

Activity completion settings may vary slightly depending on the resource or activity

Expand the accordions below to learn more about each Completion tracking setting

NOTE: Activity completion settings can also be edited in bulk, see Set up Unit completion.

In AI statement section, you can select an option from the AI statement dropdown list. By default, AI & Generative AI tools may be used for this assessment / task per the guidelines provided in the free-text explanation is selected, which requires you to provide information in the Additional text field.

Information on the appropriate selective AI use should be provided in the details and instructions for each assessment, including guidance on how to acknowledge use of AI within the assessment.

Expand the accordions below for guidance in specifying AI use

Note: The AI statement will appear in the Moodle activity description. You can change the AI statement for the activity until students have made a submission. Once students have submitted, you will no longer be able to change the AI statement for the activity, however your Faculty Administrator can change the AI statement, if required.

The Assessment section, allows you to specify if your activity contributes to the uni assessment regime. Select Yes or No to from the dropdown list. Your answer here will be utilised for later development uplift work.

The Special Consideration settings flag complex arrangements for certain assessment tasks. These details inform the Special Consideration team, allowing them to provide outcomes for approved student applications. These settings also determine whether the task will appear to students as an option on the Special consideration application form.

The default Special consideration settings are:

• Yes - Special consideration is available / applicable to the activity
• No - The activity is not a schedule final assessment
• Yes - Short extensions are available / application to the activity
• No - There are not any complex arrangements for this activity

This default will automatically grant a 2-day extension without requiring supporting documentation for approval.

Watch the video or expand the accordions below to learn more about each setting